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Sensor-to-Strategy: How Japan Is Scaling Industrial IoT Beyond Smart Factories

Japan has always believed in Monozukuri. The quiet obsession with making things better, smaller, stronger, and more reliable. It is why Japanese machines run longer, break less, and feel almost human in their precision. For decades, this philosophy helped Japan dominate hardware. Motors. Sensors. Robots. Control systems. The physical world was mastered. But the battleground has shifted. Today, perfection is no longer only about how well a machine runs. It is about what the machine knows. Data has become the new craft. Insight has become the new edge. This is why Japan is moving beyond smart factories. Optimizing a production line is no longer enough. The focus is now on Connected Industries. Optimizing the business. The supply chain. The ecosystem. Even society itself. Also Read: AI vs AI: Why Cybersecurity…